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* [RFC] why do we still keep __{get,put}_user_unaligned()?
@ 2017-04-08  6:21 Al Viro
  2017-04-08 18:36 ` [PATCH] remove compat_sys_getdents64() (was Re: [RFC] why do we still keep __{get,put}_user_unaligned()?) Al Viro
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Al Viro @ 2017-04-08  6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arch; +Cc: linux-kernel

	Right now we have no users of __get_user_unaligned() outside of
arch/* and only 4 users of __put_user_unaligned() outside of arch/*.

	All 4 are in compat_sys_getdents64().  For storing
->d_ino and ->d_off in
struct linux_dirent64 {
        u64             d_ino;
        s64             d_off;
        unsigned short  d_reclen;
        unsigned char   d_type;
        char            d_name[0];
};
in case 32bit userland has weaker alignment requirements for that thing
and passes us a pointer that would've been aligned for 32bit, but not
for 64bit ABI.  Which architecture would that be, though?

	arm, mips, powerpc, sparc and s390 have that thing 64bit-aligned
in 32bit ABI (both of them in case of mips).  And since native getdents()
does *not* maintain more than that when padding an entry, we'd better have
put_user() of 64bit values work for any 64bit-aligned pointer.  I hadn't
checked actual cross-compile for tile, but judging by their compat.h they
are not suffering from that kind of braindamage either.

	x86 does, indeed, have weaker alignment in 32bit ABI.  It also
has __put_user_unaligned defined as __put_user.

	Is there any reason to keep those around?  As it is, the only places
that need those are m68k and arm binfmt-flat, and these boil down to "can this
CPU flavour do unaligned access?", with "use __get_user/__put_user" and
"use __copy_from_user/__copy_to_user" as outcomes.  Nothing more fancy...

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